Catholic Nuns

[dothawkes31]

we've just found that one of the ancestors went into a nunnery about 1920, she was born in 1905 in london and died aged 68 in Torbay Devon, anyone know what nunnerties there were there at all?

[craft1948]

good grief dot I would think there were loads.....I actually visited a nunnery in York in 1967....it was the Poor Claires.

[craft1948]

Poor Clares ^

[dothawkes31]

Most towns only have one nunnery if at all i thought, why would there be loads in Torbay is it especially Catholic?

[craft1948]

sorry.....she was still a nun when she died then...

[craft1948]

by the way York has 2 nunneries........there is the concent of the Poor Clares and the Bar Convent.

[DrFilth]

dot could you not ask for help from this site

http://www.plymouth-d...rg.uk/index.php?q=dir

[dothawkes31]

yes in torbay, i've ordered the death certificate, it occurred to me that nuns must have their death registered under their birth name rather than the name given them by the Church but i also assume there will be an AKA name on there too, she was removed from the house with her brothers and sisters when she was 6 by the Nuns in Stepney and was never returned to the family and was lost to them for the rest of their lives. He rparents both died in the east end slums within a month of each other in 1911.

[dothawkes31]

That's a great link, thanks for that, I've tried googling catholic Nunneries and am getting some very weird results!

[craft1948]

me too dot.....I ended up in Canada!!

[DrFilth]

dot i was thinking that they would know the names of them and how many of them they had in that area.
ie , like me asking how many schools in your area etc

[dothawkes31]

Are you our long lost great auntie mary theresa craft?

[dothawkes31]

I'll try emailing then drfilth, it's alien territory for me to be in touch with 1)Nuns 2) the Catholic Church and 3) Devon and so your link will be very useful

[alavahalf]

Try searching for convents in Torbay ...St. Michael's Convent 1865-1986

[craft1948]

ala...I think that's the one in Canada....

[alavahalf]

Woops...sorry..!

[DrFilth]

that is an excellent link , there is a picture of a convent on there

http://www.torbaymuse...w&gallery=1&Itemid=10

[craft1948]

yup that's Canada as well ^

[DrFilth]

sorry about that

[craft1948]

bit of a bugger isn't it.....

[dothawkes31]

I've found the one in Torquay called Stoodley Knowle which looks a favourite at the moment but until we get the death certificate which will give us more info it's abit of guess work. We've been looking for her for a number of years and only found her death entry tonight using the ancestry.co.uk death index . Why it has never shown up before i don't know, but ancestry does update all the time and maybe it was never indexed before.